LSU head coach Ed Orgeron claps for his players during an NCAA college football game against Syracuse in Baton Rouge, Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017.

BATON ROUGE – His best tailback is out. His best defensive lineman is out again. And his best offensive lineman cannot play two positions at the same time.

Other than that, LSU coach Ed Orgeron does not have a lot on his plate as his No. 22 Tigers (3-1, 0-1 Southeastern Conference) have one more week before returning to SEC play at No. 20 Florida (2-1, 2-0) on Oct. 7 in a 2:30 p.m. CBS game.

“Derrius is out,” Orgeron said at his weekly press conference Monday. “I don’t know if he’s going to practice this week. And I don’t know if he’s going to play. We’ll see how he goes on a day-to-day basis, but he’s hurt a little bit right now.”

Backup senior tailback Darrel Williams led all rushers Saturday with 92 yards on 16 carries with a 20-yard touchdown run and a 43-yard reception that set up another touchdown.

Top defensive end Rashard Lawrence played against Syracuse, making five tackles with two for losses, after missing two games with an ankle injury, but he aggravated it in the game.

“He will not play this week, and hopefully we can have him by next week against Florida,” Orgeron said.

Asked what the difference in LSU’s defensive line is with Lawrence, a sophomore from Neville High in Monroe, and without him, Orgeron said, “Night and day. He’s a tremendous leader. He seems like he does everything right. He’s getting everybody else lined up. He makes plays. He has the heart of a Tiger. I knew that in recruiting. I knew Rashard would be the team captain of our team one day and lead us to many victories, and he did at Neville. And he’s going to do it again here.”

Backup sophomore nose tackle Ed Alexander, who was injured at Mississippi State on Sept. 16 after starting the game in a shuffle because of Lawrence’s injury, is also not expected to play against Troy. In addition, backup senior free safety Ed Paris is out for the year with a knee injury. LSU plans on petitioning the NCAA to get him medical redshirt so he can play next season.

LSU’s offensive line went through three right guards – true freshmen Ed Ingram and Saahdiq Charles and sophomore Adrian Magee – without much success Saturday. And Orgeron was asked if he and offensive line coach Jeff Grimes have considered moving junior No. 1 center William Clapp to right guard and promoting redshirt freshman No. 2 center Lloyd Cushenberry III to No. 1 center.

Clapp started 11 games last season at left guard and 11 in 2015 at right guard and has graded very well more consistently this season than LSU’s other offensive linemen.

“That has not been discussed,” Orgeron said. “We’ll stay with the same group we have.”

Ingram will start at right guard, Orgeron said.

“We talked to Ed, and we think there are some things that we’re going to get better at with Ed there,” he said. “We’re going to work on some things with him. It’s not all him now. We just didn’t play well up front.”

LSU quarterback Danny Etling (16) is sacked by Syracuse defensive lineman Kendall Coleman (55) during the first half of an NCAA college football game in Baton Rouge, Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton)

“Ed’s a freshman. But we expect all the guys to play better,” Orgeron said. “Obviously, he’s going to make some mistakes, and he did. But the rest of the guys did also.”

Magee finished the game at right guard and is expected to continue playing there.

“He gave us some stability there,” Orgeron said. “But he had a couple of technical errors that I know Coach Grimes is going to fix.”

Orgeron and Grimes want to keep Clapp at center as he has proven adept at calling the signals for the other linemen in an offense now more complicated because of a myriad of shifts and motions under new coordinator Matt Canada.

Orgeron laughed and asked the reporter, “Were you in our meeting this morning? We’ve had that discussion about simplifying things. First thing Matt came up to me and said, ‘Coach, we had too much in.’ First thing he told me this morning, ‘We need to simplify.’ And we’re going to. We’re going to streamline what we’re doing. Do what our players can do best. Play LSU football.”